Its integrated business model, where lending and underwriting have effectively been combined under one roof, makes it easier for BankAmerica to press the relationship argument to its business customers, according to Edward Carter, who heads up corporate and investment banking at the Charlotte, N.

Talk of a global regulatory system was bandied about by heavy hitters ranging from Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to billionaire currency speculator George Soros, with Soros going so far as to assert that "the private sector is ill-suited to allocate international credit" and proposing an international oversight agency to help stabilize the world's banking system.

China's city commercial banking industry will face fierce competition with the completion of the transition period of China's entry into WTO; meanwhile, the gradual opening of the market to foreign banks will stimulate more competition.

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